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Anchor lead: Most children don’t seem to develop severe COVID-19 illness, Elizabeth Tracey reports Children appear to develop mild or moderate COVID-19 illness, studies show, yet Rachel Thornton, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins, says that knowledge may not alleviate the …
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Anchor lead: Adolescents experience opioid overdose and need treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer than one in fifty adolescents who come to an emergency department with opioid overdose and survive are offered recommended treatment to help them avoid a recurrence, a …
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Anchor lead: How are adolescents who overdose on opioids treated? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people experience a non-fatal opioid overdose treatment to curb addiction and help them avoid recurrence is indicated, yet only a very few adolescents receive such treatment. …
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Anchor lead: Can a simple intervention reduce a common infection in newborns? Elizabeth Tracey reports Bacteria known by the shorthand ‘staph’ can cause serious and sometimes life-threatening infections in newborn babies, especially those in the neonatal intensive care unit or …
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Anchor lead: Measles infection can have a long term impact on immune responses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Unvaccinated children who became infected with the measles virus had long term destruction of their ability to fight off infections to which they had …
